Centrica

Centrica plc is the FTSE-listed British energy and services group behind British Gas, the United Kingdom's largest household energy supplier, along with Bord Gais Energy in Ireland, Centrica Business Solutions, Centrica Energy (its wholesale power, gas and LNG trading arm) and the Hive connected-home brand. It sits across the whole value chain — upstream gas and storage at Rough, generation and battery flexibility, wholesale trading and route-to-market, retail supply to roughly ten million UK homes, and a field-service engineering business — after exiting North America with the sale of Direct Energy to NRG in January 2021 to refocus on the UK and Ireland. Its API posture is honestly closed: Britain mandated the smart-metering INFRASTRUCTURE (the licensed Smart DCC monopoly and the SMETS2 rollout) rather than a consumer data right, so Centrica has no Consumer Data Right, no Green Button and no standards-conformant consumer usage endpoint. The DESNZ non-domestic smart meter data access requirement that does bind it is discharged by a written request answered within ten working days, not by an API. Household consumers reach their own data only through the British Gas app and account login; business customers through the Energy360 DataView portal. The single publicly reachable developer surface found is the Centrica FieldOps Azure API Management developer portal — a partner field-operations platform in its development environment — and Centrica publishes no open grid or market data of its own, leaving that to NESO, Elexon and the DNOs.

Centrica publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Oauth2 API. Tagged areas include Energy, United Kingdom, Utilities, Electricity, and Gas.

The Centrica catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Centrica’s developer surface includes authentication, sandbox, documentation, signup flow, API reference, engineering blog, and 24 more developer resources.

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49.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 13/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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Energy United Kingdom Utilities Electricity Gas Smart Metering Energy Retail Energy Markets Ireland Field Service Management

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Composite quality — 49.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 15

Access Clarity 8.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 4.4 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 45.9 — up to +13.5 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 49.4 — up to +10.1 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Centrica Oauth2 API

The Oauth2 API from Centrica — 1 operation(s) for oauth2.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Identity API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

centrica-fieldops-access-token

AGENT SKILL

Centrica API pricing

Prices published by Centrica, read 2026-07-27 from api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/products. This record is due for a re-check. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Starter free	—
Unlimited custom	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Starter product — requests per minute: 5 requests per minute
Starter product — requests per week: 100 requests per week
Unlimited product: unlimited requests

Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Centrica Plans

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Centrica Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Centrica

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Centrica Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Centrica API Rules

46 rules · 44 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Centrica Fieldops Identity Api Overlay

7 actions · documentation · centrica-fieldops-identity-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Centrica Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Centrica Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Centrica Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

Sandbox

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

WellKnown

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conventions

Lifecycle

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: centrica
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/centrica/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Centrica
kind: company
description: 'Centrica plc is the FTSE-listed British energy and services group behind British Gas, the United Kingdom''s
  largest household energy supplier, along with Bord Gais Energy in Ireland, Centrica Business Solutions, Centrica Energy
  (its wholesale power, gas and LNG trading arm) and the Hive connected-home brand. It sits across the whole value chain —
  upstream gas and storage at Rough, generation and battery flexibility, wholesale trading and route-to-market, retail supply
  to roughly ten million UK homes, and a field-service engineering business — after exiting North America with the sale of
  Direct Energy to NRG in January 2021 to refocus on the UK and Ireland. Its API posture is honestly closed: Britain mandated
  the smart-metering INFRASTRUCTURE (the licensed Smart DCC monopoly and the SMETS2 rollout) rather than a consumer data right,
  so Centrica has no Consumer Data Right, no Green Button and no standards-conformant consumer usage endpoint. The DESNZ non-domestic
  smart meter data access requirement that does bind it is discharged by a written request answered within ten working days,
  not by an API. Household consumers reach their own data only through the British Gas app and account login; business customers
  through the Energy360 DataView portal. The single publicly reachable developer surface found is the Centrica FieldOps Azure
  API Management developer portal — a partner field-operations platform in its development environment — and Centrica publishes
  no open grid or market data of its own, leaving that to NESO, Elexon and the DNOs.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/aem6/etc/designs/britishgas/favicons/favicon-152x152.png
tags:
- Energy
- United Kingdom
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Gas
- Smart Metering
- Energy Retail
- Energy Markets
- Ireland
- Field Service Management
tags_raw:
- Energy
- United Kingdom
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Gas
- Smart Metering
- Energy Retail
- Energy Markets
- Ireland
- Field Service
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: centrica:centrica-oauth2-api
  name: Centrica Oauth2 API
  description: The Oauth2 API from Centrica — 1 operation(s) for oauth2.
  humanURL: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/api-details#api=identity-api
  baseURL: https://api.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/api/v1/identity
  tags:
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Oauth2
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/centrica-oauth2-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/apis
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/api-details#api=identity-api
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/api-details#api=identity-api
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/centrica-fieldops-identity-api-overlay.yaml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/centrica-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/centrica-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/centrica-authentication.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/centrica-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  name: British Gas responsible disclosure policy
  url: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/global-maintenance/responsible-disclosure.html
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/centrica-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/centrica-security.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/centrica-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/centrica-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/centrica-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/centrica-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/centrica-packages.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/centrica-sandbox.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/centrica-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  name: Centrica FieldOps APIM products, captured
  url: plans/centrica-plans.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/centrica-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.centrica.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/signup
- type: Plans
  url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/products
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/apis
- type: Login
  url: https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/signin
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/business/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  name: British Gas terms and conditions
  url: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/terms-and-conditions.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  name: British Gas privacy policy
  url: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/privacy-policy.html
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/centrica
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ConnectedHomes
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Centrica API — frequently asked questions

Does Centrica have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Centrica, including Centrica Oauth2 API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Centrica API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Centrica, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Centrica API?

Centrica documents its authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Centrica Authentication.

How much does the Centrica API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Centrica, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Centrica API ready for AI agents?

Centrica has a Kin Score of 49.8 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 32.2 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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